Connect engineering decisions
Keep biology, process design, facility capacity, cost, environmental impact, source evidence, and review context in one governed model.
Company
Engineering software should show its work.
Acatian helps process-development, MSAT, manufacturing, plant-engineering, TEA, and LCA teams connect scientific models with the complete production system and the evidence behind a decision.
Mechanistic before magical
Use explicit equations, units, balances, operating domains, uncertainty, numerical checks, and transparent AI-assisted changes that remain reviewable.
State what is proven
Separate executable software behavior, calibrated predictions, validated use cases, unresolved data gaps, and claims that still require industrial validation.
Keep engineers in control
Qualified teams remain responsible for GMP, safety, regulatory, equipment, control, validation, and investment decisions.
Founder & scientific background
Process research translated into engineering software.
Acatian is founded and led by Katharina Julia Brenner, an industrial process modeller, bioengineer, and PhD candidate working across bioprocess scale-up, plant-wide simulation, digital twins, TEA, LCA, and data-driven engineering.
Katharina Julia Brenner
Founder · industrial process modeller · bioengineer
Current work connects scientific process models with industrial manufacturing architecture and decision-grade evidence.
Technical University of Munich
PhD candidate and scientific staff in Cellular Agriculture, modelling industrial biomanufacturing systems.
FEASTS
Research ecosystem covering process scale-up, efficiency, circularity, and waste-stream valorisation in cultured-meat manufacturing.
Future Foods at TUM
Interdisciplinary community connecting sustainable food technology, research, entrepreneurship, and education.
TUM Venture Labs
Early venture-building work in cultivated food and biotechnology.
Innovation & technologyCDTMClass of Fall 2017
Leadership programmeBayerische EliteAkademieClass of 2017
Academic foundationLMU MunichMathematics and psychology
Selected academic stationUniversity of CambridgeInternational academic background
Selected academic stationStanford UniversityTechnology and bioeconomy ecosystem
Selected academic stationKAISTInternational technology ecosystem
These entries describe the founder's research, education, programmes, and selected academic stations. They do not imply institutional endorsement of Acatian or a commercial partnership.
Product claimRequired evidencePublic position
Software executionVersioned inputs, solver run, numerical checks, outputs, and artifact integrityDemonstrated by the reproducible synthetic reference implementation
Process predictionCustomer-owned calibration and independent validation data over the intended domainEstablished per application, never inferred from a generic demonstration
Validated CFD or plant integrationQualified external solver or site connection, configuration, convergence, security, and comparison evidenceScoped separately from browser engineering screening
Decision readinessAcceptance criteria, uncertainty, source governance, limitations, change control, and qualified approvalBound to the named decision and model version
ProductAcatian · bioprocess engineering software · provider details in the public Impressum
Technical evaluationStart from one company-owned process, agree acceptance criteria, reconcile results, and expand only after the model earns trust.